Having that openness in your company is important." "If people are informed, and they feel their job is predictable-not safe, because I think being an indie developer, safety is often hard to come by, but, that's important. "'It's good that you guys understand that, trust me I'm going to take care of that, I'm going to work on a daily basis to address this, and in a couple of months that equation's going to look different.'" "We have meetings where we look at this and say 'look guys, everything is fine for the next six months, in seven months there's going to be a struggle,'" he said as one example. Tornquist frequently referred back to a spreadsheet that helps him chart out Red Thread's viability, and he works to communicate it to the team as best he can. With the industry changing around Red Thread, Tornquist admitted that the studio had to lay off a number of employees in advance of Draugen's launch to ensure it could keep its doors open. "You need to be profiled, you need front-page treatment, you need a huge marketing budget, you need to have some meme-able thing in the game, you need to be an unnamed Goose, you need to have something that jumps out and captures people's imaginations, and it's hard to plan for that." "There needs to be so much more around it," said Tornquist. And in his words, it's not enough to "make a good game" anymore. Steam has become a more crowded marketplace. Kickstarter has grown to be a more viable platform for tabletop than digital games. The primary reason Tornquist has become concerned with studio survival is that the conditions Red Thread was founded under have drastically changed. One developer who's keenly aware of what it's taken to keep different kinds of companies afloat is Ragnar Tornquist, CEO and lead designer at Red Thread Games, a studio that saw great success with the Kickstarter for Dreamfall Chapters, but has worked hard to keep its doors open to make more narrative games like Draugen. We took time at Sweden Games Conference this year to ask a handful of developers how they're thinking about making companies sustainable, and ensuring they can survive shipping their passion projects. But before any studio in the world can think about bringing home blockbuster bank and buying everyone Teslas, it needs to solve that survival equation. What works for one studio, in one region, will never work for another. It's a question without a fundamental universal answer. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.This is a major question that many developers have talked to Gamasutra about over the years. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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